Original Poems Promoting Social Justice

togetherness poems

I give this flower,these historic eyesto the Atlantic whale, who will performfor me a symphony of genius. Hungry, we willrob one another of mistrust,caress each other’s hairless skin,holding things that gravity cannot forsake.Once safe in the ocean’s dune,we will open our eyes, our mouths,swallowing moonlight like piratesfrom a ship.Together throughthe salted plasma we will swim and hopefor the violence born by medieval fear,promoted by divisionand encouraged by judgementto be terminated by an acknowledgmentof identical love(which is not an accident).Tenderly we will axe the human prejudice;and the child and calf, rubbing wing and armwill know the blessing of a marvelous unity,which has been concealed to the pointof near extinction.

Tiniest morselsMinuscule bitsFinite particlesSubatomic moleculesIf we only hadThis modicum of respectFor ourselvesAnd each otherImagine the large differenceWith all thoseQuarksCompiledIn which all that mattersCould be changed

Chips of the Berlin Wall in my drawer,spray-painted blue and pink, pieces comehome. One side of that wall named shame,the other anti-fascist protective –concrete come downwith sledge blows, muscles,earth movers.

The year the Mexico borderwall comes down, runthe marathon overthe World Trade Bridge,one Laredo to the other.Of the rusted metalmake church keysand bicycles.Cross the big river’s flowof history,freedom and perhapsforgiveness.